[RFC PATCH dtc] C-based DT schema checker integrated into dtc

Kumar Gala galak at codeaurora.org
Fri Oct 25 00:00:52 EDT 2013


On Oct 24, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Grant Likely wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 22:51:28 +0100, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>> 
>> This is a very quick proof-of-concept re: how a DT schema checker might
>> look if written in C, and integrated into dtc.
> 
> Thanks for looking at this.
> 
> Very interesting. Certainly an expedient way to start checking schemas,
> and for certain bindings it may be the best approach. The downside is it
> forces a recompilation of DTC to bring in new bindings and it isn't a
> great meduim for mixing schema with documentation in the bindings.
> 
> g.

Yeah, I think any solution has to make the Documentation and the schema representation one thing otherwise more error prone and another set of things to review.

- k

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